Farewell, Britain, such a sad fall for you. And for once, I’m feeling a lot of admiration for the stalwart Dutch, not just Wilders (who’s endured death threats and an inability to return home as a result of his brave stands) but all the ordinary Dutch who are standing up for him.
You know, back in my world history class many moons ago, I read about how the Dutch twice defeated the British navy (or I guess, technically defeated the English navy as it wasn’t yet Britain) in successive Anglo-Dutch Wars in the late 1600′s, then essentially conquered Britain itself in 1688 (when William of Orange joined with anti-royal factions and took the English throne). Now, at the time of course, England’s Royal Navy wasn’t yet the one dominating the seas as they would be after Nelson whipped the French at Trafalgar, but still– the way that Dutch admiral Michael de Ruyter beat the English fleet in essentially British waters, made me recognize that those Dutch must be some very tough, stout-hearted people ( http://forums.skadi.net/archive/index.php/t-98215.html and http://www.nnp.org/vtour/xpages/anglodutchwars.html if anyone’s interested).
Recent events are only confirming this. Even the Dutch who don’t like Geert Wilders are standing by him here, and the Dutch (and Belgian Flemish) heart seems to beat strong and courageously. Hopefully there are some locales in the West that are standing up to dhimmification, seems like Denmark and a few Alpen countries have been electing nationalist parties. Maybe even the Dutch are getting tougher (even the French have been moving in that direction though in their usual scatterbrained manner). But on the whole, seems like dhimmification is still proceeding apace in most places, particularly in Britain itself.
